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Twitter Down: It's Not Just You Seeing the Fail Whale [UPDATED]

Update: After about an hour of downtime, Twitter seems to be up and running. Here's what the Twitter team had to say: "We are experiencing an outage due to an extremely high number of whales. Our on-call team is working on a fix."

Update #2: Twitter team gave us a little more info about the incident: "We are recovering from this incident. A sudden failure coupled with problems in switching to a backup system produced a high number of errors for around 90 minutes. This made the site largely inaccessible. No data was lost or compromised during this outage."

It's good to know that Twitter got those extra fail whales out of its series of tubes. The exact cause hasn't been released yet, but we'll update you when we have that info.

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It's not just you: Twitter is completely down, and has been for at least 15 minutes. What exactly what took down the microblogging service, we don't know (some speculate that a wave of tweets due to this morning's 6.1 earthquake in Haiti could be partly responsible).

It's late pacific time (or early, depending on your perspective), meaning most of the Twitter team is probably asleep and a response to the situation will be delayed.

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